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Peanut Sesame Soba Noodles

Saturday 24 Mar 2012 | 2 Comments
Filed under: Entrees, Main course Tags: cilantro, peanut butter, sesame oil, Soba

By: Deanna Linder It is known that human beings are creatures of habit. Psychology often explains this phenomenon as having to do with the brain finding comfort in the known, leaving room to discover new/different experiences. If that is the case than, for 12 years straight, my brain was free for lunch. Every day for lunch, I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, from the kindergarten through High School. Sometimes with crust, sometimes without; sometimes strawberry jelly, sometimes grape-but that iconic sandwich found its way into my lunch bag. This was definitely not the case of the lazy mom, which some of you may already be thinking. A month and half ago, checking my Facebook feed, I discovered something new. Apparently it was National (US) Peanut Butter Day. Getting nostalgic for my upcoming visit to the US, I thought it would be fitting to make a grown-up peanut butter dish and this one popped right into mind. These days I find myself trying to make my son a variety of different...
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Individual Plum and Peanut Butter Tarts

Thursday 26 Nov 2009 | 1 Comment
Filed under: Sweets Tags: peanut butter, plum, Puff pastry

During lunch break, in 7th grade, I took out my usual sandwich: white bread with feta cheese, kalamata olives and tomato slices. From the corner of my eye I spotted Vicky, the new girl, who was eating a sandwich with a sweet aroma and red stripe running through it. The next day I offered to "switch"- my Greek sandwich for her South African one with peanut butter and jelly. The trade went through and it was love at first taste. Several years have passed since that day, and my friendship with Vicky still remains, and sandwiches have been replaced with sushi but the longing for that mythical sandwich still remains. This tart was inspired by that sandwich: you spread peanut butter with honey onto squared of puff pastry, and place very thin slices of plums sprinkled with sugar on top (instead of jelly- for those that don’t want to give up on the jelly can spread a thin layer on top of the peanut butter). I tried to make one large tart instead of individual ones, and even though the crust...
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